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Fairgrounds Square Mall was an enclosed shopping mall located just north of Reading, Pennsylvania in Muhlenberg Township. It was anchored by Boscov's, Burlington Coat Factory, and Limerick Furniture. Smaller stores included Super Shoes, Planet Fitness, an AMC Classic movie theater, and Golden Eagle Comics. The mall, which once had 75 stores ...
Boscov's first entered the Philadelphia market in the late 1980s by opening Ports of the World stores. [12] These stores would later be re-branded as Boscov's sometime in the mid-1990s. In 1983, Boscov's leased the Fowler's department store building and opened the next year in downtown Binghamton, New York .
Redner's Markets was founded in March 1970, by Mary (1918–2007) and Earl Redner (1926–2017). They opened two supermarkets in Reading, PA.. In 1975, the company formed an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), making them the first supermarket in Pennsylvania to be employee owned.
[10] [30] Boscov's department store, whose owner, Al Boscov, was a member of Steamtown Mall Partners, planned to bid for the mall at the auction or purchase it beforehand, but could not reach an agreement. [30] [31] Out of 43 Boscov's locations, the location at Steamtown was the 5th-best performing with annual sales of $31 million.
Boscov was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1929, [1] [2] the son of immigrants Solomon and Ethel Boscov. [3] His father had arrived in Reading from Russia, [4] in 1911 [5] where he founded a dry goods store in a row house in 1918. [3] Boscov graduated from Reading Senior High School in Reading and Drexel University in Philadelphia. At Drexel ...
The Bon-Ton closed in late April 2018, leaving Boscov's as the mall's only remaining anchor. [36] [37] Higher Hope Church used the former J. C. Penney for their meetings. [38] Family Practice Center took over the former Sears space, and remodeled it into a clinic with a 50-year lease. [39]
Reading (/ ˈ r ɛ d ɪ ŋ / RED-ing; Pennsylvania Dutch: Reddin) is a city in and the county seat of Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States.The city had a population of 95,112 at the 2020 census and is the fourth-most populous city in Pennsylvania after Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Allentown.
The Boscov's store at Lebanon Valley Mall was the first Boscov's location to be opened outside of Berks County. [ 5 ] The Lebanon Valley Mall Company, a real estate development group owned by parent company Boscov's, [ 2 ] oversaw construction of this mall on U.S. Route 422 on the west side of town.